From BenWaB3@aol.com Thu Jan 15 15:06:28 2004
Subject:Re: Soulive

In a message dated 1/15/2004 3:13:02 PM Eastern Standard Time Tony Orant writes:

> I've seen Soulive a couple times already...they really are smoking. Last time they opened for the Meters at the H.O.B. here in Chicago, and blew them off the stage...and I'm a
> hardcore Meters fan.

Not wanting to start another charged debate (& couldn't anyway really, since I've never been privileged to see Soulive), but when you saw the Meters was it the original lineup? They have continued to play here & there for many years but it is most often w/ a couple original members & the rest are replacements. The results, according to some other hardcore Meters fans, don't compare to the original lineup. I was privileged to see the original group back in `76 (they broke up in `77 as I recall) in a club in Hammond, LA & they were the funkiest group I ever saw. They really made thier records suck. Ziggy Modeliste just nailed the crap out of that N'awlins funk thang. I really do want to see Soulive too, but if they were playing against a different version of the Meters it wouldn't be the same contest.

Ben Ninmann